Reporter 30/6/99: Examination in Development Studies for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course), 2000: Notice

Examination in Development Studies for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course), 2000: Notice

The Development Studies Committee give notice that in the academical year 1999-2000 the subjects for the examination in Development Studies for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course) will be as follows:

Group 1

1	Development economics This subject will be examined by means of a three-hour written paper.
2	Institutions and development For candidates not taking Paper 1 above, this subject will be examined by means of a three-hour written paper. For candidates taking Paper 1 above, this subject will be examined by means of:

either	(a)	a three-hour written examination
or	(b)	two essays of 5,000 words each.

3	Sociology and politics of development This subject will be examined by means of two essays of 5,000 words each.

Group 2

10	Quantitative methods in economics and finance (Subject 301 from the examination in Economics)
11	Topics in industrial and financial economics (Subject 410 from the examination in Economics)
12	Suspended for 1999-2000
13	Financial organizations and economic growth (Subject 520 from the examination in Economics)
14	Philosophical issues in economics (Subject 650 from the examination in Economics)
15	Methodology of economics (Subject 660 from the examination in Economics)
16	National planning and economic policy (Subject 5 from the examination in Land Economy)
17	Land and food policies in low-income countries (Subject 6 from the examination in Land Economy)
18	Social anthropology and development (Paper 3a from the examination in Social Anthropology)
19	Development and the global environment
20	Sociology and politics of Latin America (Paper 5 from the examination in Latin-American Studies)
21	The African development experience
22	Globalization, big business, and developing countries

The Committee give notice that in the examination to be held in 2000 the subjects of Group 2 will be examined as follows:

Subject 10 will be examined by means of a three-hour written paper and a project

Subject 11 will be examined by means of one 4,000-word and two 2,000-word essays

Subjects 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, and 22 will each be examined by means of two 5,000-word essays

Subject 14 will be examined by means of four 2,000-word essays

Subjects 16 and 17 will each be examined by means of a three-hour written paper

Subject 21 will be examined by means of one unseen written exercise undertaken within a 48-hour period

The Development Studies Committee also gives notice that options in Group 2 may be added to or removed from the above list during the first half of the Michaelmas Term 1999. A further Notice will be issued if any such changes are made.

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